Last Friday, all of the members of our Lab presented their work at the Botany Research Symposium at UBC, Vancouver.

• Nick Bard talked about “Surveying fungal biodiversity: a genome mining approach” where he explained his work developing a pipeline to easily find fungi from large datasets of genome sequencing with huge applications.
• Isidora Silva-Valderrama talked about “Predicting the virulence of pathogens: linking host breadth and pathogenicity of the Botryosphaeriaceae fungal family in winegrapes (Vitis vinifera)“, exposing the preliminary results of the third chapter of her thesis.
• Marie Toorians talked about “Mapping the bovine TB reservoir in sub-saharan Africa” where she explained the experiments and objectives of her upcoming trip to Sudafrica to find the bovine TB in hotspots.
• Avery Kruger talked about “Phylogenetic Underpinning of Interaction Networks” where he explained his recent results and what we are going to see in his new-coming paper!